168 research outputs found
Amos Tutuola: Debts and Assets
No full textLindfors Bernth. Amos Tutuola: Debts and Assets. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 10, n°38, 1970. pp. 306-334
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Begging Questions In Soyinka,Wole 'Opera Wonyosi'
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Review of African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis
No full textReview of African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davi
Lindfors, Bernth, ed. -- Africans on Stage. Studies in Ethnological Show Business. Bloomington-Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1999, 302 p.
No full textBernth Lindfors, connu comme un spécialiste de la littérature africaine, s'est aussi intéressé aux exhibitions d'Africains au XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. On lui doit une série d'articles sur le sujet, et en particulier sur la célèbre Vénus hottentote. Il nous livre ici un très bel ouvrage collectif réunissant des conférences qui, pour la plupart, furent présentées ces dernières années au meeting annuel de l'African Studies Association, et qui traitent précisément du show business ..
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Mislike Me Not For My Complexion ... : Ira Aldridge In Whiteface (First Important Black American Shakespearean Actor)
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Nothing-Extenuate-Nor-Set-Down-Aught-In-Malice - New Biographical Information On Aldridge,Ira
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\u3cem\u3eBlack African Literature in English, 1982-86\u3c/em\u3e, by Bernth Lindfors
No full textA review of Bibliography of African Literature in English, 1982-86, compiled by Bernth Lindfor
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Point of view in two West African novels : a comparison of Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born and Sembène's Les bouts de bois de Dieu
No full textThis study is an initial experiment which attempts to examine African novels in French and English with the aid of a number of critical concepts connected with point of view. It will however use these concepts to a special end: the examination of point of view will focus primarily on the relationship of the author with the fictional world he creates, and more especially with his characters; and it is hoped that from the study of his relationship with his fictional world it may be possible to make certain deductions about the relationship of the author with the real world that fiction represents. To attempt such a parallel between the creative novelistic process and the relationship of the author to the real world would hopefully be of special interest in the case of the African novel, given the somewhat special position of the African novelist vis-a-vis his society at present. 'Special position' refers of course to the fact--now a cliché--that he is in most cases a member of a Western-educated elite, and will therefore presumably stand at some distance from the majority of his people. The degree of that distance, and how capable and/or desirous he still is of bridging it, will surely manifest itself in his creative activity. And it is precisely with distance, in its many different forms, that a study of point of view attempts to deal. We might, then, when we consider a novel, ask ourselves the following questions: How wide is the author's range of characters? Does he offer us a panoramic view of society, embracing among other things both his own 'elite' class and the 'masses'? If so, are the representatives of the different layers of modem African society presented with equal depth? Is the author capable of imaginative penetration into classes and layers of society to which he himself no longer belongs? In other words, is he capable in his novel of imaginatively reducing the social distance between himself and others, or does he on the other hand tend to limit himself to his personal experience, in which case he will concentrate in his novel on the Western educated elite, and offer us less intimate insight into the workings of the rest of society?French and Italia
In the study of African writing
No full textReview of: Bernth Lindfors (ed.). Conversations with Chinua Achebe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997, and Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Chinua Achebe: a biography. Oxford: James Currey; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 199
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